March 1, 2018: After an amazing 10 years, Wombat Security Technologies, the CMU spinoff I co-founded with Jason Hong and Lorrie Cranor to commercialize results of our research on combating phishing attacks was acquired by Proofpoint for $225M. Here is the CMU press release. The original Proofpoint press release is here. This is also covered in news articles abroad (e.g., here’s a French article in Le Monde Informatique).

Feb. 28, 2018: Our research group presents two papers and several posters at the FTC’s annual Privacy Conference. I’ll be presenting our work on privacy assistants to help users keep up with the broad deployment of cameras and computer vision algorithms – see our article here

August 2017: The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) relies on results from our Mobile App Privacy Compliance tool in a study conducted to provide follow-up comments to the FTC/NHTSA workshop on Connected Cars

April 2016: Our WWW2016 article titled “Crowdsourcing Annotations of Websites’ Privacy Policies: Can It Really Work?“ was nominated for the best paper award

March 11, 2016: We have released a new websiteshowcasing a corpus of 23,000 privacy policy annotations. The site features color-coded navigation functionality that enables users to interactively explore privacy practice statements for nearly 200 different websites. This is research conducted under our Usable Privacy Policy project. See CyLab press release and also articles in Consumerist and LifeHacker

September 2015: National Science Foundation grant on personalized privacy assistants for smartphone apps with a particular focus on user behavior – work in collaboration with Yuvraj Agarwal and Lorrie Cranor.

March 2015: Nice article in the Wall Street Journal on our mobile app privacy research. The full study will be presented at CHI’2015 next month. Here’s also the CMUpress release. Around 50 news articles have been published in the past few days (including articles in the US, UK, Germany, France, India, Brazil, China, Vietnam, Netherlands and more). Here is the one in Wired and here’s a cool blog post in futurity that also talks about our work on personalized privacy assistants. See also project website here

November 2014: An app developed over the summer at Microsoft by my PhD student, Justin Cranshaw, is featured on CMU’s homepage. The Microsoft Garage “Journeys & Notes” app connects people with similar commutes. Here’s the Microsoft announcement. Congrats Justin!

October 2014: Anupam Datta and I recently coordinated CMU’s response to the NITRD Request for Information on a National Privacy Research Strategy

January 23, 2012 – US Supreme Court unanimously agrees with our view that placing a GPS device under someone’s vehicle constitutes a search & that doing so without a warrant violated the defendent’s privacy. At the same time, they do not address more fundamental issues relating to expectations of privacy – See Supreme Court’s Opinion here and CDT’s statement here.